Weekly Featured Image: Ongoing Contest

Question

After a continuous run of almost a decade, contest participation has gotten extremely low. See Contest is definitely dead. Now what? for more, and for possible next steps to revitalize it.

Also, you may instead want to check out the new Photo Competition on the main site! See also the Meta post, New Photo Contest.

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This is the place to submit and vote on photos to be featured on the the main site. This contest should showcase your best quality work, demonstrating at least moderate skill with a camera and a general understanding of the artistic aspects of photography. Remember, the selected photo will be displayed on our main site header for a week. Submit something that you and the members of our site will want to look at and admire for seven days! This contest is for the community to choose what they LIKE (not what they dislike), so downvotes aren't allowed — see below for more.

Contest Format

Starting in December 2012, this contest follows a new perpetual format with continuously-rolling voting. Submit and vote on photos whenever you like. Every Monday (give or take; it's done by hand when site moderators have a spare moment), the top-voted image will be selected as the winner, and:

• moved to the Winners' Hall of Fame

• featured on the main site header for the next week

Then, the contest will continue with the remaining photos in the thread.

(Note that the themed photo contest will work on a different scheme.)

Voting Rules

• Vote up as many images as you like.

• Make sure to look at the "active" tab for this question to see new submissions.

• Up votes only! Do NOT vote down your competitors! If you don't like an image, don't vote. (If you notice a downvote on an entry, make a note in a comment, and that will be taken into account when the weekly winner is selected.)

• When you vote, consider the small size primarily, even if a larger image is linked. This contest's primary function is to select a header image, and we need the winners to be successful at that size.

Submitter Rules

• Showcase your best work in any genre of photography by providing your image inline in an answer.

• You may enter one photo per week. This is on the honor system, but abuse will eventually earn a strong talking-to.

• Don't re-enter the same photo. Since the contest is continual, there's no need. You may withdraw an image from the contest at any time by deleting the answer.

• You may edit your entry to fix problems or to add missing information, but don't switch the photo itself for a different one, or make gratuitous edits simply to "bump" the entry.

• Images must be 210 px high and up to 375 px wide. This is the requirement for the header. Please feel free to provide a link to a larger version, but as explained above, the primary focus is on the header image.

• For the same reason, images must be in landscape orientation.

• Images must not contain any artificially added borders, watermarks, or decorations of any kind.

• Do not use this as a forum for photo critique. Use chat instead, or ask a specific question about your image on the main site.

• The submitted image must conform to this site's content license, cc-wiki with attribution required. If you're not comfortable with that, this isn't the contest for you.

Submitter notes

Be patient! This contest is relatively obscure, and it takes a while for images to accumulate votes. It's normal for really excellent images to have only one or two upvotes even after a time. The format of the contest should let them rise to the top eventually.

Feel free to include a concise description that explains the image, the emotions behind it, and so on, and perhaps some explanation of gear and exposure settings. This site is a collaboration for teaching and learning, so it's great to know those things — but it's not required for the contest.

When we get up and running with featuring these photos on the blog, this will provide the opportunity to go into more depth and to engage in conversation about your work.

Answer 1

Reflection

Taken at National Park "De Meinweg", The Netherlands. Larger image available here.

Nikon D40 with Sigma 24mm f/2.8
f/7.1, 1/200s, ISO 200

Answer 2

High Resolution Image here: Nature by Parth Bhatt @500px

Answer 3

Nature's Red and Green Show

Answer 4

Location: Dubai Palm Jumeirah.

Canon EOS

ISO:100

Answer 5

My Masterpiece

Larger

Canon 40D, Sigma 17-50mm F2.8 @ 35mm F3.5, iso 1600

Answer 6

Long shot

Camera: Canon 550D  
Lens: Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8-4.5 DC OS HSM
Focal Length: 18mm
Aperture: f/22
Shutter: 10s
ISO: 100

Shot in Norway during sunset using the Black Card Technique and probably with a ND8 filter.

Answer 7

As I was performing a backup, this bee decided to check if the disc was connected correctly.

Answer 8

Graffiti

Answer 9

• Camera: Canon EOS 650D
• Lens: 18-55mm

Answer 10

Apricot Blossom

Taken on a sunny day in my backyard!

full image here

Answer 11

Sunset at Görlitzer Park

Camera: Canon 550D
Lens: Sigma 18-50mm F2.8-4.5 DC OS HSM
Focal length: 50mm
Aperture: f/13
Shutter: 1/250
ISO: 100

Answer 12

Sunset

Camera: SONY NEX-5, Taken on 2013/06/08 21:30:49, Exposure: 0.025s (1/40), Focal Length: 18.00mm, F/Stop: f/4.500, ISO Speed: ISO200, Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV, No flash

Answer 13

Bright in the eye!

Taken in the community garden of Tempelhof Airport park in Berlin.

Camera: Canon 550D
Lens: Sigma 18-50mm F2.8-4.5 DC OS HSM
Focal length: 18mm
Aperture: f/2.8
Shutter: 1/400
ISO: 100

Answer 14

Bangles

You can see larger versions from: https://www.flickr.com/photos/117290766@N08/13908738361/

Answer 15

Summer

Full version

Camera: SONY NEX-5, Taken on 2013/06/02 15:15:00, Exposure: 0.002s (1/640), Focal Length: 18.00mm, F/Stop: f/7.100, ISO Speed: ISO200, Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV, No flash

Answer 16

Orange Line

This photo includes bits of Somerville, Medford, Everett, and Charlestown/Boston, Massachusetts, all in one seemingly-compressed scene. (Includes the MBTA orange line, control tower for the Amelia Earhart Dam locks, the MWRA 1.5mw turbine, the blue line of a big box store, and various industrial smokestacks.)

larger version

Answer 17

This picture took with my Olympus FE-210 from my village in kerala.

Answer 18

Cute Little Orchid

Camera : Olympus FE 210

Answer 19

Here is my contribution :

Canon EOS 6D
F/6.3
1/60 seconds
ISO-800
100 mm

Bigger version here

Answer 20

Warszawa

Camera: SONY NEX-5; Taken on 2013/08/13 11:30:16; Exposure: 0.004s (1/250); Focal Length: 24.00mm; F/Stop: f/11.000; ISO Speed: ISO200; Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV; No flash

Answer 21

A busy New York street

This picture was taken in the late afternoon at a busy New York street. The lights coming from the shops, restaurants, the reflection from the vehicles passing on the street, the faded paint of the old building, and a recent movie poster altogether were making this whole scene so colorful. I had to do the HDR processing of the image to really bring out all the details, and colors.

The full sized image can be seen here: https://copy.com/TkeMOnT2rfvjXRry

Answer 22

Fall

A blurry image as a contrast to all the sharpness. It's a single exposure using a 1.6-second shutter, during which the camera was panned and then held still.

Answer 23

Answer 24

Hey there!

Answer 25

Single and many (একা এবং কয়েকজন)

F L I C K R

Answer 26

Answer 27

Red Flower.

Answer 28

Resting on a lazy day.....

Taken with Canon SX-150 IS

Answer 29

Mallcop

Shot from the hip,
at a one/six-forty clip
of the time.

Opened f-over-four, ^{(and a half)}
brought light all the more,
Kept the senses all low to a 100
and fine.

Answer 30

Inyo National Forest, California, USA. Taken four years ago on my vacation.